Market data distribution

News/cloud

How cloud unlocks the value of time series data

As mobile devices double as digital wallets streaming location coordinates and transaction information, satellite images capture fleet movements and consumers generate product reviews on social media, financial institutions are gathering and analysing a rapidly growing amount of non-traditional data to enhance their core financial datasets. The analysis of this time series data – data that captures temporal changes, organised by time – allows firms to detect unique patterns and make future predictions of market performance and behaviour.

09 April 2020

News/markets

SIX and Nasdaq establish microwave data company

The Swiss Stock Exchange is to establish a jointly-owned company with Nasdaq with the aim of building the largest microwave data transmission network in Europe.

07 April 2020

Research/Market data distribution

Data Fabric: Weaving Together A Hybrid, Multicloud Future

18 March 2020 95 downloads

News/Market data distribution

FCA to examine competition issues in market data and analytics

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun a review into the use and value of data and advanced analytics in wholesale financial markets.

09 March 2020

News/regulation

Piercing the LIBOR veil: Concern brews over looming deadline

While financial institutions across the market remain outwardly confident about their LIBOR transition strategy, uncertainty continues to surround the feasibility of achieving the migration within proposed deadlines.

02 March 2020

News/cloud

Success in the cloud: Strategic insights and best practices

The cloud is now the new normal and financial institutions are harnessing and deriving value from the massive amount of data that they possess. Finextra Research’s latest report in association with Amazon Web Services highlights that technology needs to be adopted as quickly, easily and cost-effectively as possible, for scale and flexibility.

21 February 2020

News/regulation

How banks can modernise processes to comply with regulations

In a post-financial crisis world, financial institutions are under pressure to transition from using the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to the new Sonia rate, that is overseen by the Bank of England.

30 January 2020

News/cloud

ML in the cloud enhances the financial data journey

While there are troves of financial data that have the potential to drive and inform critical business decisions, data remains siloed due to challenges associated with managing multiple data sources and aging infrastructure. Many financial institutions (FIs) face challenges – from limited storage and compute capacity to resource-intensive network deployments – that impede the ability to generate data-led insights powered by analytics.

13 January 2020

News/cloud

Cloud as the enabler of AI’s competitive advantage

Data is just the beginning. Financial institutions (FIs) are now hyper-focused on surfacing meaningful, timely, and actionable insights from proprietary and third-party data. Technologies such as the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) are forming new partnerships between humans and machines.

13 January 2020

News/cloud

Natural language processing is the next step to automation

78% of institutional investors agree that technology has made financial markets ‘better and more efficient.’ This figure is staggering when compared to the 20% of participants who feel that technology has ‘made financial markets overly complicated.’ But where does the cloud fit in?

13 January 2020

News/Market data distribution

Open Banking year two: Insights from the CMA9

The financial services industry was forced to endure a steep learning curve with the launch of Open Banking in 2018, but what followed the one-year anniversary of the UK’s experiment? Here’s a review of Open Banking’s second year. What worked? What didn’t? And what’s next?

13 January 2020